Settegast v. Schrimpe
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. The opinion of the court supplies a lucid statement of all facts involved in the rulings made. The plaintiffs and appellants were Joseph and Julius, the two sons of William M. Settegast, deceased.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The appellants brought suit in the district court to obtain title and possession of thirty acres of land lying near the city of Houston.
They aver in their petition that their father, William M. Settegast, purchased the land in controversy from John W. Schrimpf, in his lifetime. W. M. Settegast, the father of the plaintiffs, died in 1858. Their mother had previously died, and a second mother and two sisters died about the same time their father deceased. At the death of their father they were infants of a. tender age; that Schrimpf took them to his house, where they remained and grew up to…
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